October Book Sales - a good start from D2D

I famously never make any sales through D2D via Ingram, often getting a big zero for my book sales. That changed this month when Richard The Third was available to pre-order through most of October, then went on sale on Oct 30th. Come Nov 1st I find I've sold 59 units, giving me $90 profit. It's not going to set the world on fire, but it's a good start.

It comes with a slight downside. Yesterday I contacted Gardners about selling Richard The Third direct to bookshops through them. Unfortunately, because I've used my own ISBN number for both my printed version and the Ingram Print-On-Demand version, the latter is the only one that'll be available through their system. It is on sale at £8.99, the price that D2D/Ingram fixes once it's taken its percentage, whereas my Recommended Retail Price (as printed on my version of the book) is £6.99.

All this means is that, if you buy the book direct from me, it's cheaper, and it's signed. But it is very good news that international customers can get the paperback, as I know they can get from Barnes & Noble here, as well as from Amazon here.

D2D Oct sales - $90.48

Sept - £0, August $4.23, July $7.39, June $6.03, May $1.86, April $1.52, March $2.46, Feb $0, Jan $4.10

And how's this for a screenshot of my D2D sales for 2023, as of November 2nd. 10 copies of Richard sold in the first 2 days of November, taking it to 66 sales already (that's $14.98 already for November, which already beats every other previous month but October). The runner up Midsummer Night's Dream Team has only sold 14 copies all year, and the next best is Book Of Esther on 9.

Lulu/Amazon October sales - £14.23

Euro Best Of - 3 (UK)

Doctors Who - 2 (UK)

Euro 2 - 2 (UK)

Captain Clevedon - 1 (UK)

Scottish Pop - 1 (US)

Tales from Bible - 1 (US)

Shakespeare Omnibus  - 1 (DE)

September sales - £18.76, Aug £33.34, July £27.60, June £29.94, May £48.33, April £52.26, March £8.56, Feb £38.57, Jan £35.25, & Dec £26.84

Blurb October sales - 39p

Sept - £1.29, August £0, July £1.17, June £0, May 74p, Apr £9.12, Mar £3.13, Feb £3.21, Jan 12p

Etsy October sales - £51.92

Eurovision 1 - 3 

Eurovision 2 - 1

Tales From Bible - 1

Socks Superheroes - 1

MNDT - 1

Sept £0, August £13.98, July £48.93, June £55.92, May £58.05, Apr £171.05, Mar £80.86, Feb £44.50, Jan £82.86

Live at events October sales - £86.93 (Bewdley Lit Fest & Zion Bristol)

September £965.55, August £565.49, July £460, June £304.50

My Books and where to get them:

Findlay Macbeth - Amazon  - Etsy 
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy 
Midsummer Nights Dream Team  - Amazon - Etsy 

Shakespeare Omnibus Collection (all 3 books) - Amazon

Richard The Third - Amazon - Etsy

Tales From The Bible - Amazon -  Etsy 

The Book Of Esther - Lulu  - Amazon 

Captain Clevedon - Amazon

Tales Of Nambygate - Amazon